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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Washington

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$15,747 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$103,564 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 196 degrees and certificates were awarded to mechanical engineering students who went to a Washington college or university. This makes it the #22 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Washington to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Washington to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for ME students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Washington Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering

Our analysis found Washington State University to be the best value school for mechanical engineering students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Washington. Wazzu is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Pullman.

Wazzu graduate students pay an average of $13,740 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Our 2023 rankings named University of Washington - Seattle Campus the best value school in Washington for mechanical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UW Seattle are $17,754 a year.

UW Seattle did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington list.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 1,202
Oregon 86
Nevada 20
Hawaii 15
Alaska 7

Mechanical Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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